'Untouchable'
"[T]he apparent breakdown in discipline among the MPs at Abu Ghraib may relate to the presence of women, and especially to the fact that the commander was a woman, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski. The climate of 'Political Correctness' (or, to give it its true name, cultural Marxism) that has infested and overwhelmed the American armed forces makes it almost impossible to discipline a woman — and risky for a man to attempt to do so. ...
"This unpleasant reality of life in America's 'PC' Army may have relevance to the roles of female MPs in what went on in Abu Ghraib. At Gen. Karpinski's level, the effect of the ideology of cultural Marxism, which defines women as 'victims' and men as 'oppressors,' was undoubtedly more subtle.
"If one of her male subordinates, say a colonel, or a peer, or even a superior officer, had raised issues that might have damaged the career of 'a senior Army woman,' his career would immediately have been in jeopardy. ... Under the rules of cultural Marxism, because she is a woman, she remains untouchable; any man in her situation would by now have been relieved of command, at the very least."
— William S. Lind, writing on "The Power of Weakness," Saturday at www.lewrockwell.com |
